Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel has many reasons why he wrote the memoir Night. Wiesel says that others believe he survived for a reason. He believes that he survived by chance but because he did, he hopes others can learn from his experience. He says, “However, having survived, I needed to give some meaning to my survival” (Wiesel viii). He hopes the memoir Night will show others the truth of what happened during the holocaust. This is one of the many reasons he wrote his book. Wiesel uses his writing as therapy for the things he has been through in his past. He uses his writing so he can go crazy and express all his thoughts. He uses it not to go crazy so that he doesn’t keep all his hurt in side of him for the rest of his life. He has been through terrible times such as prison camps, and other awful experiences. He feels as though he needs to express the way he felt during these times so that it does not become just another time in the textbooks. These, and many other reasons explain why he wrote is wonderful memoir.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Topics to Know
Questions
Answers
Nazi Propaganda
Who is Joseph Goebbels?
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
- Could only read, see, and hear what the Nazis wanted you to
- They gave you severe punishment if you did not do what was asked of you
- Nazis’ assumes that what they taught would be picked up very extremely
Kristallnacht/ The Final Solution/ Wannsee Conference
- When Nazis destroyed everything that the Jews had such as stories, houses
- It also was known’s as the night of broken glass
- It happened on Novemember 1938 2. Was a meeting by the Nazis that took place outside Berlin it was about Jews and quickly lead to genocide
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The Victims
Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust?
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
- Closed- occupied soviet union and Germany, were closed off by barb wire or fence the starved and put people in unheated hoying and made Jews live in serve weather conditions
- Destruction –tightly sealed off and exsiccate 2-6 weeks b4 Germans deported or shot the Jews
- Open- had no walls or fences, existed in Germany they occupied Romanian authorities
- Lodz, Krakow, Bialystok, Lvol, Lublin. Vilna
- Gas showers, Killing of own family members and children, starvation, public shooting and much more
- Conditions were awful, rats, dirty, barely any food or water, burning hot
- - Labor camps- worked people to death
- Death camps- just killed off people slowly or quickly but not a such labor
- 24 were charged
- Hitler committed suicide
- They represented cross-section of German diplomatic, economic, political, and military leadership.
- “Following Orders” of other Nazis
Assignment 3 Images of Night
Gas Chambers Gas Chambers Horrific and Deadly Saddening, Terrifying, Killing Like the cries of children in pain and as cloudy as fog A hand from the angel of death Dying With nothing left but themselves and one in a million
Table of Contents
Blythe M. Night Assignments
Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel has many reasons why he wrote the memoir Night. Wiesel says that others believe he survived for a reason. He believes that he survived by chance but because he did, he hopes others can learn from his experience. He says, “However, having survived, I needed to give some meaning to my survival” (Wiesel viii). He hopes the memoir Night will show others the truth of what happened during the holocaust. This is one of the many reasons he wrote his book. Wiesel uses his writing as therapy for the things he has been through in his past. He uses his writing so he can go crazy and express all his thoughts. He uses it not to go crazy so that he doesn’t keep all his hurt in side of him for the rest of his life. He has been through terrible times such as prison camps, and other awful experiences. He feels as though he needs to express the way he felt during these times so that it does not become just another time in the textbooks. These, and many other reasons explain why he wrote is wonderful memoir.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm
- They gave you severe punishment if you did not do what was asked of you
- Nazis’ assumes that what they taught would be picked up very extremely
Wannsee Conference
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/
Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference?
What was the Final Solution?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477
- It also was known’s as the night of broken glass
- It happened on Novemember 1938
2. Was a meeting by the Nazis that took place outside Berlin it was about Jews and quickly lead to genocide
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Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457
CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups”
- Soviet union prisoners
- Afro-Germans
- Gypsies
- People with diabetes
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059
What was life like in the ghettos?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445
- Destruction –tightly sealed off and exsiccate 2-6 weeks b4 Germans deported or shot the Jews
- Open- had no walls or fences, existed in Germany they occupied Romanian authorities
- Lodz, Krakow, Bialystok, Lvol, Lublin. Vilna
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144
What were the conditions?
What different types of extermination were performed?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145
- Conditions were awful, rats, dirty, barely any food or water, burning hot
- - Labor camps- worked people to death
- Death camps- just killed off people slowly or quickly but not a such labor
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131
What did Hitler do near the end of the war?
How many defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials? What did they represent?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143
What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142
- 24 were charged
- Hitler committed suicide
- They represented cross-section of German diplomatic, economic, political, and military leadership.
- “Following Orders” of other Nazis
Assignment 3 Images of Night
Gas Chambers
Gas Chambers
Horrific and Deadly
Saddening, Terrifying, Killing
Like the cries of children in pain and as cloudy as fog
A hand from the angel of death
Dying
With nothing left but themselves and one in a million